PIMS

'The deepest pockets are found among the ranks of fund managers'

A number of large insurers face being killed off by the onset of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) as they are "running out of proposition", a director at Ernst & Young has said.

I've just emailed my presentations to the organisers of PIMS International which takes place later this week. And in a couple of weeks' time, just after the Institute of Financial Planning's Conference in the Midlands, I'm off to the Asia-Pacific Financial...

IFAs questioned by PIMS for its latest annual survey on the state of the industry have put cost controls top of the agenda for this year - ahead even of profitability

Perspective taken from last week's PIMS conference suggest IFA attitudes were now more positive towards industry changes....but one conference delegate is far from happy with the raft of regulations.

Uncertainty of definition, yet-to-be revealed software, business models as well as questions about ownership are just some of the issues swirling around the wrap platform market being pitched to IFAs.

After all the doom and gloom of recent months, last week's annual PIMS conference on the Oriana revealed the tide is turning and attitudes towards industry change are much more positive about prospects for the future.

Six out of ten IFAs would NOT recommend investment trusts to consumers, according to a PIMS survey.